Bug#783323: Broken configuration for OpenBlocks AX3-4
On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 00:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:39:44 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > Secondly, if the installation uses LVM, /dev/sda1 is the /boot
> > partition, not the root partition. After fixing the first problem,
> > flash-kernel fails like this:
>
> Actually, this doesn't depend on LVM. The installer always creates a
> separate /boot partition using the ext2 filesystem, and this makes sense
> as u-boot generally doesn't support ext4. So I think that the /boot
> prefix should be removed from the paths for this entry. (And maybe many
> other entries.)
I think you are likely correct.
I'm considering declaring that all such db fields are always relative
to /boot and having f-k decide if it needs to prepend /boot or not,
perhaps based on "stat -c %m /boot" or something similar.
> (I know u-boot has optional support for ext4 now, but there's no sign of
> it in this version. For reference, that's:
> U-Boot 2011.12 (Aug 26 2013 - 13:08:34)
> Plat'Home version: 2.0.7 (Marvell version: 2012_Q4.0p17)
> )
Typical ancient u-boot, oh well!
Ian.
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